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COMING SEPTEMBER, 2020

Tanuki Print’s 3-year-long project: “The Appalachian Trail
Print Collection” is coming September 2020 featuring scenes from each state along the trail. All 8″ x 10″ scenes are hand-printed on top-quality hand-made paper from Japan, are hand-bound, and can be easily removed for standard-sized frames. Perfect for any trail enthusiast or as a gift for Appalachian Trail hikers. The collection will be released to coincide with the artist’s 40-year anniversary of his thru-hike of the A.T. in 1980.

There will be 100 copies available of the two versions:

(1) “The Appalachian Trail Complete Print Collection”: The print collection from each of the 14 states along the trail: GA, NC, TN, VA, WVA, DE, PA, NJ, NY, CT, MA, VT, NH and ME. $750 + shipping

(2) “The Appalachian Trail Terminus Edition”: Featuring two hand-bound prints featuring each end of the trail- Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mt. Katahdin in Maine. $150 + shipping

Top Row left to right: Georgia, N. Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania
Bottom Row left to right: N. Jersey, Connecticut, N. York, Massachusetts, Vermont, N. Hampshire, and Maine

Here’s a quick video of the printing process

Remember: Tanuki Prints is a proud supporter of
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy

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“MT. GORYU”- MOKU HANGA 13″ x 9″
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“MOON RABBIT”- MOKU HANGA 13.5″ x 9.5″
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“QUFU”- MOKU HANGA 6″ x 8″
$50 CLICK TO BUY Shipping is $2.00 within the U.S.

“DJANGO”- MOKU HANGA 6″ x 8″
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A Woodblock Glossary

• Bake (hanga or maru): traditional Japanese printing brushes made of horse or hog hair. Hanga bake have long handles, maru (round) bake resemble shoe brushes.

• Baren: The traditional printmaking "pad" that is used by manually pressing the inked block. and paper.

• Baren-suji: Impression marks made with a baren- intentional or not.

• Beta ban: A flat, consistent color block.

• Bokashi: A graduated color impression often seen in traditional ukiyo-e print backgrounds.

• Chūban: a print size about 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 cm).

• Keyblock: Roughly, line blocks often containing color.

• Hanshita: The drawings used as a guide to later carving.

• Ita-bokashi: "block shading" a technique for producing gradation achieved by sanding or abrading the edges of the carving.

• Moku hanga: Japanese for woodblock prints.

• Nishiki-e: Multi-coloured woodblock printing.

• Nori: Paste to keep pigment in suspension made of rice, potato or tapioca.

• Ōban: a print size about 15½ by 10½ inches (39 by 26.5 cm).

• Sakura: Japanese cherry often used for woodblocks.

• Shin-hanga: "new prints"- refers 20th century woodblock printmaking revival often featuring layered color landscapes.

• Shina: Japanese basswood or lindenwood often used as easily-carved woodblocks.

• Sosaku-hanga: "self-prints"- prints that are designed, carved, and printed by the artist. A movement that became popular during post WWII Japan.

• Tokibo: or hakobi a small brush used to apply pigment to the block.

• Ukiyo-e: Literally, "floating pictures" referring to 17th>mid/late 19th century prints depicting secular subjects.

• Washi: traditional Japanese paper made from the bast fibers of the mulberry plant.

• Zokin: A small wooden block covered with cloth primarily used to print bokashis.

[+] For a more extensive list from M.I.T., go here

[+] For more information about the techniques of moku hanga, see www.woodblock.com and barenforum.org

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